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My story

 

Welcome to my Virgin London Marathon 2010 fundraising page

In July 2008, due to my father having a massive Heart attack, I started running. My first ever competition run was the Nike Human Race 10K, held at Wembly on 31/08/2008, for which I raised, close to £800 for charity. My next run was another 10K, held at Lea Athletics Centre. After running this race I decided to step up a gear and run a Half Marathon in Stevenage on 02/11/08. That was it; I had caught the running bug & decided to go for the big one! I entered Flora London Marathon 2009 and completed it in 5hours 20mins with injuries to both knees and managed to raise in excess of £1900 for charity! In 2010 I hope to raise in excess of £2000.00 for Heart Research UK and hopefully a faster time.

During my training for the Virgin London Marathon 2010 I’ll be entering many competitive runs and some long distance cycle rides starting with the London to Cambridge on 26th July 2009. So this year my sponsors will get more value for money as my legs will be suffering in many competitions! I’ll keep this page updated as I enter more competitions. Please visit this page regularly to see my competitions entries.

I chose Heart Research for my charity this time because Heart Disease is Britain’s biggest killer. Heart disease has touched most of us in some way. It can strike anyone. Some are born with it, others only find out when it is too late. In fact, 700 people in the UK suffer a heart attack every day - that’s one every two minutes.

Heart Research paid for 6 of the 8 first successful UK heart transplants, carried out by Sir Terence English at Papworth Hospital.  Many things that we now take for granted, such as heart valves, angioplasty and more recently, amazing artificial heart pumps, would not have been developed when they were, without their help. You can read all about their research here - http://www.heartresearch.org.uk/

Running the Virgin London Marathon is no simple task. For someone like me it takes months of training. My training will consist of four weekly runs, 1 long distance road run, fast paced road run, treadmill hill run & tread mill fast paced run. On my spare days I do weight training or cycling. Already I'm running in excess of 20 miles per week and its only Jul 09! Each week my long distance road run will increase until I reach over 20 miles. So there you go, an insight into what's involved in running a marathon.

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Finally I would like to thank my wife Sarah for all her support and for keeping me motivated, my friend’s Joe Amodei and Salv Concadoro for joining me in competition runs, my cousin Carlo Bongiorno for getting my running started, all my other friends and work colleagues for their support and finally a big thank you to all my friends at World Of Digital for all their help and support http://www.world-of-digital.com

all the best bud go for it Donation by thelostone 23/11/09  

£10.00

Donation by Anonymous 19/11/09  

£35.00

Good luck mate.. Donation by Gaf 03/11/09  

£35.00 + £9.87 Gift Aid

Have a tenner on us, good luck Donation by Reddevil + Julie71 03/11/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

'Keep on Running' Stef. Keep up your great work. I hope it is a lot less painful than last year. Donation by Diablo13 31/10/09  

£10.00

all the best m8, thesparky Donation by steve kearney 31/10/09  

£30.00 + £8.46 Gift Aid

once again stef good luck and wish i could give more Donation by saffronfox 30/10/09  

£11.00 + £3.10 Gift Aid

good lucky buddy..........well worth the donation m8 Donation by gazza2008 30/10/09  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

keep up the good work m8 Donation by dessertdog 30/10/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Good luck Donation by notanotherone 30/10/09  

£12.00 + £3.38 Gift Aid

Good luck Donation by whoamI 30/10/09  

£2.00 + £0.56 Gift Aid

all the best stef :) Donation by berley 30/10/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Donation by Magnu420 26/10/09  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

thanks Sicilian for all you help and good luck. Donation by saffronfox 26/10/09  

£40.00 + £11.28 Gift Aid

thanks sic m8 Donation by wullboy 25/10/09  

£35.00 + £9.87 Gift Aid

Good Luck Donation by J 23/09/09  

£5.00 + £1.41 Gift Aid

All the best Stef, I have every faith you'll do everyone proud :) Donation by Berley 08/09/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

best of luck stef Donation by wullboy 30/08/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Donation by steve powell 07/08/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Just read your story, and am impressed ! Good luck, and well done so far. Donation by steve powell 07/08/09  

Donation by Anonymous 26/07/09  

£20.00 + £5.64 Gift Aid

Good luck Stef - so proud of you! Andrea xxxxxxxx Donation by Andrea Hooper 23/07/09  

£10.00 + £2.82 Gift Aid

Donation by Anonymous 22/07/09  

£10.00
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